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How do businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions? What’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance? This innovative degree is firmly rooted in your own experience.

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How do businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions? What’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance? This innovative degree is firmly rooted in your own experience.

This module explores the choices organisations make about employment relations strategies and the associated impacts on employee engagement. It provides an understanding of different employment relations perspectives, theories and debates as well as the national and international contexts of employment relations. Throughout the module the roles of employee participation and voice as crucial processes underlying employee engagement are critically examined. Other areas covered include managing diversity, communication, change management, and the management of conflict associated with grievance, discipline and dismissal.

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In this free course, Products, services and branding, you will find out about how organisations manage their products and services. This will include learning about how new products are developed and how the existing portfolio of offerings is managed. The particular characteristics of service products will be explained so that you can understand the impact that these features have on how services are managed.

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A small grocery store run by one person and perhaps their family must pose quite different challenges from a multinational corporation with operations in many different countries. This free course introduces different types of business, depending on industry sector, size and type of ownership and discusses some of the ways in which businesses differ from each other.

This free course, Retail marketing, explores how retailers use marketing to communicate with their customers, considering definitions of retailing and consumers, the basics of communications, before moving on to look at different forms of marketing communications and advertising used by retailers.

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Terry O’Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Management at The Open University Business School where he researches and teaches in the fields of social and arts marketing. He is the joint author of Creative Arts Marketing, a guide to applying marketing practice in the cultural industries, which is popular with practitioners and students alike. Its third edition is now available. Terry's published research includes articles on marketing to promote pro-environmental behaviour in organisations, and the enhancement of audience experience at live arts events.

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Liz Moody has an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School and additional postgraduate qualifications gained through distance learning in marketing from the CIM, IDM and the British Management Institute as a management coach. Her undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Education and she has 20 years’ experience as a manager on which she has built her consultancy knowledge.

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